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April 14, 2009

Students Beaten and Prevented from Entering Noushirvan University in Babol

(14 April 2009) Twenty students at Noushirvan University in Babol were prevented from entering the campus, insulted, and beaten by the University Guards and plainclothes security officers who met them… ...

April 4, 2009

Students Held in Incommunicado Detention Are At Risk of Torture

(4 April 2009) The Iranian government should immediately and unconditionally release all detained students the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The students are being held in… ...

March 25, 2009

Hana Abdi

Hana Abdi (21) is an activist in Sanandaj and was arrested on 4 November 2007 by intelligence agents. Abdi was recently ordered to pay a fine of approximately $30,000 instead… ...

March 18, 2009

Ahmad Ghasaban

On May 3, 2007, security agents arrested Ahmad Ghasaban, editor of the student publication Sahar. He was conditionally released in August 2008 but was again detained on 24 February 2009… ...

March 18, 2009

Nariman Mostafavi

Nariman Mostafavi, a student activist at Amir Kabir University, was detained on 24 February by security agents at his home. He is reportedly being held in Evin prison and is… ...

March 18, 2009

Mehdi Mashayekhi

Mehdi Mashayekhi, a student activist at Amir Kabir University, was detained on 24 February by security agents at his home. He is reportedly being held in Evin Prison and is… ...

March 18, 2009

Abbas Hakimzadeh

Abbas Hakimzadeh, a student activist at Amir Kabir University, was detained on 24 February by security agents at his home. He is reportedly being held in Evin Prison and is… ...

March 18, 2009

Majid Tavakoli

Majid Tavakoli, arrested on May 9, 2007, is a student at Tehran’s Amir Kabir University and a member of the central council of the university’s Islamic Association. After being released… ...

February 25, 2009

University Campus Violently Attacked

…called on the Iranian government to immediately release all Amir Kabir students and to end its persecution and prosecution of students. The students were protesting the burial of “unknown martyrs”… ...

February 21, 2009

Lives of Four Students on Hunger Strike Are at Risk

…at risk. The students should be released immediately and unconditionally, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The four students are among a group of around twenty… ...

February 17, 2009

Baha’i Community in Peril

(17 February 2009) Attacks on the Baha’i community in Iran have reached alarming levels, including semi-official calls for its “utter destruction,” the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said… ...

February 14, 2009

End Prosecution of Student for Exercising Freedom of Speech

…Nikounesbati graduated from Mofid University in Qom two months ago. He was the spokesperson for the Office to Foster Unity, a nation-wide students union. He has been arrested twice and… ...

February 1, 2009

Academic Freedom

During the past few years, Iranian universities have been experiencing a new phase of government intervention in academic affairs, which is considered a second Cultural Revolution. The present government policy… ...

February 1, 2009

Women’s Rights

The Iranian women’s rights movement is the most vibrant social movement in Iran today. Having built an extensive grassroots base, Iranian women are campaigning to fight legal gender discrimination. The… ...

January 25, 2009

Ronak Safazadeh

Ronak Safazadeh (21), arrested on October 9, 2007, is a women’s rights activist in Sanandaj. She has been sentenced to 9 months in prison and a $208 (2 million Rial)… ...

January 19, 2009

Hadi Ghabel

Hadi Ghabel, an outspoken Iranian cleric, was imprisoned on April 7, beginning a 40 month term following prosecution and conviction by the Special Court for the Clergy, a body akin… ...

January 15, 2009

Detentions of Shiraz University Students Continue

(15 January 2009) – The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported that Hamdollah Namjou and Alma Ranjbar students at Shiraz University were arrested at the Intelligence Office in… ...

January 14, 2009

The Systematic Repression of the Women’s Rights Movement — May 2008

An International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran report on the various dimensions of the repression of women’s rights activists in Iran…. ...

January 13, 2009

Peace Activists Protesting Gaza Violence Attacked by Security Agents

(13 January 2009) Plain clothes security agents attacked and disrupted a gathering organized by the Iranian nongovernmental group Mothers for Peace to protest ongoing violence in the Gaza Strip in… ...

January 12, 2009

Six More Shiraz University Students Detained

(12 January 2009) Six more students from Shiraz University were detained, after they appeared at the Intelligence Office in Shiraz following official summonses, the International Campaign for Human Rights in… ...

January 5, 2009

Release Detainees and Stop Prosecution of Students at Shiraz University

(5 January 2009) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported that four students at Shiraz University, Abdoljalil Rezaiee, Kazem Rezaiee, Mohsen Zarinkamar, and Loghman Ghadiri Goltapeh, were arrested… ...

January 2, 2009

Threats to Nobel Laureate Escalate

(2 January 2009) The Iranian government should immediately end its campaign of persecution against Dr. Shirin Ebadi, which has now escalated to mob threats and violence against her home, the… ...

December 6, 2008

Situation of Academic Rights in Iran Appendices

Lists compiling detained, imprisoned, suspended and released students from March 2007 to December 2008…. ...

December 5, 2008

Allow Peaceful Celebrations of National Student Day

(5 December 2008) Despite three years of persecution and prosecution and increasing threats from official organs against university students, the voices of Iranian students promoting academic freedom on university campuses… ...

November 26, 2008

Students Deserve Right to Education not Detention

…on 22 November. In the early hours of 25 November, security forces violently attacked them and other students who had gathered in their support and detained the four suspended students…. ...

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